Ultimatt

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by Ultimatt 5y ago
You absolutely set a date for intellectual conversation, and foster a network of relationships with just intellectual people. I have a whole host of friends who I basically only see for this. I wouldn't hesitate to invite them to a par
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by Ultimatt 5y ago
Just for context this is what they are "debating" saying yes or no to https://youtu.be/TlO2gcs1YvM
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by Ultimatt 5y ago
I agree strongly on the it could (and should) have been a better Python or Perl. A lot of the reasons I like Raku (previously Perl 6) is that it's adopted a lot of the philosophy of Icon possibly accidentally.
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by Ultimatt 5y ago
There was also a JVM implementation too, it's probably one of the earlier languages to have an implementation. https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/jcon/index.htm
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by Ultimatt 5y ago
After ZX Spectrum Basic, Icon is the first programming language I learned once I had a PC. It's extremely good for learning event based programming and the basic principles of UI programming, as nothing gets in your way and is baked in
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by Ultimatt 5y ago
Is no one going to comment on for *.pdf assumes no spaces in filenames for the BASH example to be correct, what about Fish?
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by Ultimatt 5y ago
Didn't see anyone mention Pandoc in the comments so far... https://pandoc.org
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by Ultimatt 5y ago
The somebody matters though, what a ridiculous statement. In the UK most funding is protected via funding councils and royal charters so that it's never directly the incumbent government deciding what is and is not researched. There ar
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by Ultimatt 5y ago
There is a lot of bias in the chat here from a more chemistry and pharma slant. If you ignore this AlphaFold solves in a very meaningful way the problem blocking a lot of science investigation. For comparative and evolutionary analysis stru
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by Ultimatt 5y ago
You might want to look into what the following cli options do for you: perl -F':' -anE 'say $F[0]'
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by Ultimatt 5y ago
now if only tabix and most hokey bioinformatics formats would die and just be replaced with a formal schema spec in SQLite...
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by Ultimatt 6y ago
The point is this gives you a GUI, but is communicated over a terminal. So if you want a GUI from some Docker instance this is a lot easier to fiddle with on the CLI than x-forwarding.
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by Ultimatt 6y ago
The OP is bringing up a very specific form of PhD here. That of the "big lab", these are inherently exploitative. You are training for yesterdays skills on something no one cares about (most of the time). Then you finish, there is
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by Ultimatt 6y ago
The suggestion is not an analogue computer at all. Did you read the article? But a digital computer produced from a different medium. Microfluidics is already being used in a really serious way in engineering automation of most biomolecular
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by Ultimatt 6y ago
That's the 10%. 90% is working out what to even do, and managing all the humanity in the system before you arrived to build software.
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by Ultimatt 6y ago
I'm not sure why pharma constantly gets a poke whenever anyone discusses copyright and patents. It's just a normal industry, it feels like everything is biased simply out of Heinz dilemma and that there is more often a moral dilem
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by Ultimatt 6y ago
You're not wrong. This entire article is a classic example of Computer Science failure. It's someone who knows program optimisation in the abstract and nothing about the actual target problem from a domain knowledge perspective. T
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by Ultimatt 6y ago
A fun thought, but absolutely zero to do with biological evolution. Multicellular life isn't especially hard to form once you have cells with controlled division/replication either. With the simplest multicelled life essentially b
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by Ultimatt 6y ago
By targeted reconnaissance effort do you mean trivial geographic correlation based on your phones location data. So if the Google Street View car had a DNA sequencer on the back and GPS recorded any fragments and location it could trivially
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by Ultimatt 6y ago
Not for identifying or incriminating you it doesn't given the practical risk of how the information can be used.
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by Ultimatt 6y ago
What was the 2010 Rakudo Star release then? Is 2015 language spec stability?
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by Ultimatt 6y ago
I suspect this is a thing in a relationship when one of them suddenly comprehends their own mortality and starts to think they should have more ambition for their outside work life. It can go either way, the nihilism of Netflix or suddenly
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by Ultimatt 6y ago
You're glossing over the advantages specific to cryo-EM though, which is it can give you a good picture of large ensembles of small things at this accuracy, with a lot less computational/interpretation hardship than X-ray crystall
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by Ultimatt 7y ago
Where do I go to add language support? Given you have BrainFuck and LOLCODE but not Perl.
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by Ultimatt 7y ago
> join(‘,’,@{$foo->{‘bar’}}) You might write it this way. I prefer to use the features of the language developed in the last decade: join ',', $foo->{'bar'}->@* Which if that looks spooky, the
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by Ultimatt 7y ago
"bounded integers" not entirely sure what you mean. But the integers are big integers that can take up the entirety of your computer memory to represent a single rational number if you so wish.
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by Ultimatt 7y ago
You should take more long haul flights if you think mobile is pointless.
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by Ultimatt 7y ago
I dunno. You're limiting your thought to computer science. I think it's more likely at this point in time biotech will produce an AGI, likely by accident. Worse one that competes directly with us for resource. We dont have a great
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by Ultimatt 7y ago
There is statistics and then there is statistics. For example this paper is statistics based https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3487 with some novel data too. But its stats over graphs, which is way less straight forwa
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by Ultimatt 7y ago
A big issue is its actually expensive to start a company that involves lab. Software can genuinely be one person in their bedroom with some AWS credit. I think the "why has no one else done this?" question is one of the worst anyo

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